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Forget “Saturday Night Live.” The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players are staging a different, unique kind of political satire with “Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri,” which will run in the Agassiz Theatre through Dec. 14.In the fanciful world of “Iolanthe,” an intermingling of members of Parliament and fairies spurs a commentary on politics hidden beneath a layer of hilarity and madness. According to director Benjamin T. Morris ’09, the group pushed to perform...
...English professors are required to fill out a questionnaire by Dec. 16 outlining the courses they are planning to teach in the next two years—including in the four new categories...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) Election Commission lengthened this year’s presidential campaign from four days to 11, giving student government hopefuls an extra week to preen and be vetted before polls open on Dec. 12. In the face of last year’s dismal voter turnout, the extension of the campaigning period for UC candidates is undoubtedly a good thing. With a sufficiently large student body, it is hard for any candidate to be known widely enough on campus for all students to make an informed voting decision. Freshmen have had only three months to meet other students?...
...Dec. 5, all 2.9 million votes cast in the 2008 Minnesota Senate campaign will have been reviewed by hand, a month after challenger Al Franken and incumbent Norm Coleman were separated by just a few hundred votes on Election Day. Franken maintains he's currently in the lead by 20 or so votes, while Coleman says he's ahead by thousands. The reason for the discrepancy: "challenged" ballots, which representatives from both campaigns say need further examination. The two candidates are slicing, dicing and dividing this bulky stack of votes differently so each can claim to be pulling ahead. After...
...mess. But it's not that unusual. A look back at some similarly close - and even closer - races provides some lessons on where things might go in the Minnesota contest, the only remaining undecided 2008 Senate race. (Republican Saxby Chambliss thumped Democratic challenger Jim Martin in a Dec. 2 runoff...